Unless I planted some cottonwoods which is not going to happen.
I've cut down two or three healthy, much better looking silver maples since this thread started. I am evil that way.
My recommendation of removal was not based on the tree being a hazard. It looks like it has been the victim of bad pruning over its life and while that might make it "interesting," I think it has begun its downward spiral. I think progressively elevating silver maples into vase shapes makes...
Maybe its regional but that silver looks too thinned out. I wager the original damage done to that tree was over-pruning. I am skeptical the more pruning on an over-pruned tree will have any positive results. I hope you are right and I am wrong but that is how I see it.
At about 3:17 in the video you show a branch that is hollowed out on top. That looks like sun scald damage from over-pruning in the past. When I see that I try to leave the trees fuzzy with lots of water sprouts to give the bark some heat shielding. In the case of your tree, I would have...
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